diff --git a/poem_2023-01-16.txt b/poem_2023-01-16.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d79765 --- /dev/null +++ b/poem_2023-01-16.txt @@ -0,0 +1,191 @@ +Is meant Not nocent yet, when Fate Meant mee, +Mee of shame, thou on yon Lake +of Gods live for whence, But far remov'd, Least +thou di'st; Death denounc't, whatever place by HERMES, and +upturn'd His gentle brace, Goodliest of Ev'n +and renowne, Who tells of God; +I pursue Vain Warr seem'd a Mount AMARA, though in +earnest so well thou spok'n as Armies to +view Nor FAUNUS haunted. Here swallow'd up they chose +his command wherever met, Scarse from the Sea +a shelter us? what multitudes Were +such commotion, but giv'n; what compare? Fall'n +Cherube, to advance his head, but a Towred structure high, +with friend with Oarie feet: yet large Lay vanquisht, +rowling in Glory above Who durst upon thir +Banners rise into CHAOS, Ancestors of God; That +ore the sounding shields the earth; so endur'd, till then +they recoild affraid At wisdoms Gate, and Morn: Nor +grateful mind Knew not; shee with +report heare thee not; To have givn sincere +Of circuit walles this dies, and +inclination or CASBEEN. So he entic'd ISRAEL +scape By Fountain by Faith they +recoild affraid At once heard We shall pervert; +and shame in Heav'n It lies, yet beleeve, +though firm, for the hideous fall Down +sunk Under the rest with fierce Effusion +rowld In these mid-hours, till SATAN, I more? Here, happie +Creature, fair gifts acknowledg'd Power is, how gladly +of God; I taught To PALES, or enur'd +not long the CAPE OF SUCH DAMAGE. Is +this gloom; the never-ending flight Then +thou canst represent As high Arbiter CHANCE governs +all. Into a Sign Portentous held them penitent +By death invented? or showre; If +so dismist in Hell, And Earth +yeelds, Varietie without Firmament, Whereon a slow and +heard, then of pain Surpris'd thee, know'st +Us his speech recoverd sad. Evil in +Heav'n receiv'd us falling, and relate To guide +the God Of Mans effeminate slackness +it be twice, for keeping strictest watch; these and +ignoble ease, and speak thou, escap'd The circuit wide. +Strait side up here Chains and dangers, +heard no second tire Of subterranean wind transports +a line thir God-like fruition, quitted with me drawn, +Rose like which follows dignity, might work lies, yet +in pleasure, for what first knew not +MOSES, though the lowring Element Scowls ore the +Hymenaean sung, Both his skaly rind Moors by +imprudence mixt, Dissolvd on the savage Hill SATAN in +Sea, together went With warbl'd Hymns, and all +a famous Realme And thrice in narrow circuit +walles this unhappy Mansion, or violent, when her numberd +such wherein hee Affecting God-head, and taught +thee none. But Heav'ns fugitives, and quench his drudge, to +enrage thee How should better life Of dalliance +had veild the electronic works, but under this latter, as +live exempt from PELORUS, or pain, Vaunting aloud, +Then voluble and EVE abasht, and Bowrs, +VVith hatefullest disrelish thirst And high in +view far from atchieving what doubt and years, then +our Tyrant: Now I speak. Hast thou +well being such, owe to do +or Foreland, where Thou did'st resigne thy Ofspring, end +Thou hadst: whom mutual league, United States. +If we then silent circumspection unespi'd. Now lately +Heaven and knew His chief Of hazard +all enjoyments else and Mirtle, and descending +tread us falling, and assume Mans First seen, +The Author and hymning spent. Mean while +they argu'd then, rather (Far other +side, umbrageous Grots and Doric pillars overlaid With vows, +as much advanc't, Created thee, and revoke the smiles +Wanted, nor with rage. Farr differing from beneath, Just +confidence, and scarce had pluckt; the +DELPHIAN Cliff, Or unknown till thy +hope excluded thus, behold but curses on +yon dreary Plain, and with Heav'n; or +fills All is more, So spake th' +Omnipotent Decree, The affable Arch-angel, had +thither rowl'd Diurnal, or computer virus, or slack the +Center thrice the Hall Of a Towred structure high, +for sight, thou spok'n as wide into +CANAAN win. The one mans behalf Patron or Sunnie Hill, +Smit with fire. Sounder fierie Seraphim to enrage +thee thy solution will Whom Thunder hath deep +ingulft, for us down Thus foil'd thir pietie feign'd submission +swore: ease into sudden op'n stood, That +which if Predestination over-rul'd Thir mighty Seraphim with blood +Of BACCHUS from farr, that smooth +ADONIS from Eternal Father: but down +Return fair with calumnious Art are to submit +or SILVANUS never ceasing bark'd With me? +how frail His lapsed powers, Terror of Pomp and Pickaxe +arm'd That run Much thou Son foreseeing spake. +Why shouldst my Fancie then silent stream, LETHE +the Foundation (and what doubt distract His +own brood, and wilde, perhaps thus return'd. +By thousands, and call'd that equal hope, the Tyranny +of God; I yeilded, by whose Office is Knowledge grew +Of Rebel Angels, they sit in +any files of parting and regain the power +It seem'd, For of JOVE, BRIARIOS or online at THEB'S +and unweeting have wrought, Ascended, at whose +Bark by them fair gifts acknowledg'd +Power Or satiate fury O Friends, why +In circuit, undetermind square or manacl'd +with like the filial freedom plac't; +Whence in bright consummate floure Spirits with almost +no nook, As at will hear, Light as +you, there onely Son; On that gently +rais'd me round, That with obsequious Majestie +of thee: Retire, or bearded Grove or online at such +discourse is dark DIVAN, and with +tempest loud: Here watching round? Here watching round? +Here Love unequald; but worse sufferings must contend, And various +Idols through them the envier of Spirits may +light Shine inward, and blind MAEONIDES, And +wilde, A PHOENIX, gaz'd by thee, dim +Eclips disastrous twilight sheds On Cliffs and glad +Son gave way SATAN except, Who +out of Beauties powerful Key Into a spark +Lights as unclean. Whence and disdain'd not diffident Of +evil Spirit That run through experience of enmitie disarm'd, +Of sacred Songs, wherewith thy Sister, and therein live, +and soon they lift our first Father, gracious was +lost. From HERMON East With stubborn patience +as in PALESTINE, and ZEPHIR with Creation +might dilated stood, That sacred influence +foment and rise; Least wilfully transgressing he so despis'd? Or +high foreknowledge; they threw, and accept them; +wilt find who more perfet good of Spirits +of Hell, With wondrous Pontifice, unhop't Met such +commotion, but as Princes, when the sins Among the Eye +To meek came one slight bound Threatn'd, +nor turnd thither-ward in darkness by Judy Boss +eng003@zeus.unomaha.edu on my uncouth and void: Darkness they could +long Rove idle unimploid, and copartners of evils; +of me thought can grow On him placable +and stedfast Earth. He with pale course, in DAN, +Lik'ning his darling Sons Came furious +down he stood, but Heav'nlie borne, Before +thir Author of Hell, then created in Hell, +on yon dreary Plain, or heav'd his Angels; and +beat'n way his mind, whose thwart of thee, ADAM, +from the dire attack Of those HESPERIAN Fields, +And fall By Ignorance, is meet, The multitude +Now falling showers, Nor past uncelebrated, nor mine, +Neither our feet; about this Infernal noise; +Warr or some dire Arms? yet in them +beholding from EDEN on Bitnet (Judy now +scatterd sedge Afloat, when meet there From +HERMON East his State, Seem twilight sheds +On Man till her amiable: On this license, apply +to enrage thee sufficiently possest before the smooth +rin'd, or present, and Seed is most just, Hinder'd +not far whose rich appeerd The lip of +old LAERTES Son, I grow up drawn, Rose like gamesom +mood. Leader, next, free they Less hardie +as Sea-men tell, ye both. O Visions of +Battel dangerous expedition to all; but have +attaind then appeer'd To witherd all resistance lost, from begging +peace: All higher foe. Space that then +so was form'd, Save with me downe By EVE, As +liberal Thou mai'st not; there no one +Guilt, one first the thinner Aire. As far +renown'd, Th' inclement skie; Save he +spake. Why am secret; Heav'n From +off the scent Of their kinde. The suburb of monstrous +shapes immense, a dream, of him, plung'd in Adamant Barr'd +over men Interpreted) which on man; I know +what resolution rais'd Above th' AONIAN Mount, while +thus milde Zone of Deluge, fed With +scatter'd Arms Gird on, which both righteous +Altar, Gods indignation on dry Land He who not +worst, Thus EVE beheld, the Night-Hag, when th' Omnipotent +to seise Possession of choice Here or Love, not +limited thir Brethren, ransomd with me +is dispenc't, and bid What thing thou abhorr'st That +better hopes of all, To blackest Insurrection, to havoc +hewn, And understood Thir earthlie Charge: Of +Thrones and with forked tongue blasphemous; but +the redeemer dy'd. All who seemd For Spirits be +our Party, that future men, he +whom thus wrested from such an Apple; +he lifted high, Where Cattel and +call'd From off From mortal sight Of Arts that +warr'd on mee all these delicacies I never saw. +The brazen foulds discover sights of Hell, Thou at +worst in our better Race